We love a good bundle deal at Tech Advisor, and they don’t come much better than this. For just £49.99 Currys is bundling two smashing Christmas gifts for kids: a Google Home Mini smart speaker, and a Fitbit Ace 2 activity tracker.
The Google Home Mini has featured in many of our top deals over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales season, but this Christmas deal is one of the best we’ve seen yet. Google Home Mini, now superceded with the Nest Home Mini, remains a highly recommended device. It’s come down from its £49.99 retail price to just £19 as retailers look to shift stocks, while the Fitbit Ace 2 tracker also bundled here will usually retail at £69.99.
We gave the new Google Nest Mini a full five stars in our review, but the reality is it’s not really all that different from this older version, adding a wall mount, an audio jack, and slightly enhanced speakers. The Google Home Mini remains one of our favourite smart speakers of all time, especially with its recent price reduction, making it the cheapest entry point for adding Google Assistant to your home.
Very much like Amazon’s alternative Echo Dot, we prefer Google Assistant over Alexa for its ability to converse in more natural language, and to call anyone in your Google Contacts for free over a Wi-Fi connection. It’s an ideal device for controlling smart home kit such as smart lighting, connecting to a wide range of third-party services, but more than that it’s simply a great connected speaker for listening to all your favourite music on-demand, internet radio and playlists. It can answer all your questions and even tell you about the news, and that’s just the start.
The other half of this bundle is just as attractive, with the Ace 2 a fitness tracker hailing from the company that has become synonymous with such tech, and this model is designed just for kids aged 6 and above. It’s waterproof, making it safe for use in the bath, but also more easy to clean when it gets near those sticky fingers.
For its younger audience Fitbit has made some tweaks, stripping out the calorie counting and adding in different modes for kids and parents. Through the Kid View, kids can see only their stats data, badges and clock face options, plus are able to connect with parent-approved friends.
Several colour combinations are available:
- Fitbit Ace 2 (blue & yellow) + Google Home Mini (charcoal)
- Fitbit Ace 2 (blue & yellow) + Google Home Mini (chalk)
- Fitbit Ace 2 (blue & yellow) + Google Home Mini (coral)
- Fitbit Ace 2 (watermelon & teal) + Google Home Mini (charcoal)
- Fitbit Ace 2 (watermelon & teal) + Google Home Mini (chalk)
- Fitbit Ace 2 (watermelon & teal) + Google Home Mini (coral)
You can read more about the two devices that form this super bundle in our Google Home Mini review and Fitbit Ace 2 review.
If you only need one, we’ve also rounded up the best Fitbit deals and best Google Home deals, and we’ve got a huge range of Christmas tech deals you’ll want to hear more about.
Author: Marie Black, Editorial Director
Marie is Editorial Director at Foundry. A Journalism graduate from the London College of Printing, she's worked in tech media for more than 17 years, managing our EMEA and LatAm editorial teams and leading on content strategy through Foundry's transition from print, to digital, to online - and beyond.